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Plano triathlete injured in hit-and-run in The Colony

A Plano triathlete was seriously injured Wednesday night when a car struck her bike from behind and fled.

Debbie McGregor, 41, was about to finish a triathlon training session near the intersection of Windhaven Parkway and Plano Parkway when she was hit, said Gerald Jackson, the coach of her team, Negative Split Racing.

“It was a horrific site,” said Jackson, who was waiting a half mile away for McGregor to finish when she was struck. “Her bike was in multiple pieces. The bike was bent in half.”

Jackson said that McGregor was knocked at least 25 yards off her bike and was found lying on the road in the 7500 block of Windhaven Parkway. But she was conscious.

“What happened,” Jackson recalled McGregor asking while on the ground.

“Don’t worry,” he said he told her. “We’ll get you all fixed up.”

Paramedics took McGregor to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, where she is improving. She has a gash above her left eye, has a possible crack in her lower spine and has puncture wounds in both knees.

But she can move her legs and arms. And she’s even text messaging friends from her hospital bed, Jackson added.

“It’s a tragedy,” he said. “But she’s going to be OK.”

Jackson said he didn’t know a description of the car that hit her. A spokesman with The Colony Police Department didn’t immediately return a call seeking more information.